![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Nancarrow Player Piano - Conlon Nancarrow
Player Piano in Amsterdam doing a work by Conlon Nancarrow
Keywords: Conlon Nancarrow; pianola; Amsterdam
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| An Interview with Conlon Nancarrow
In April of 1977 Charles Amirkhanian journeyed to Mexico City to talk with composer Conlon Nancarrow, who had settled there after a self-imposed exile from the United States, following the harassment he experienced over his involvement with the Communist Party, and his fighting in the Spanish Civil War. The two discussed the mechanics of composing for the player piano, a process of manually punching literally thousands of holes in long rolls of paper...
Keywords: Interview; New Music; Conlon Nancarrow
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| Morning Concert with Conlon Nancarrow, 1991
Morning Concert host Charles Amirkhanian interviews Conlon Nancarrow by telephone from his home in Mexico City. The two composers reminisce about time spent together in Mexico, and movements in Mexican politics. Nancarrow shares how he discovered Indian classical music. Amirkhanian remarks on the innovations, technical details, and challenging performance aspects of Nancarrow’s work. The program features brief excerpts from "Piece No...
Keywords: interviews; Conlon Nancarrow; player piano studies; KPFA Morning Concert series; New Music
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| Morning Concert: Conlon Nancarrow’s 80th Birthday
Composer Conlon Nancarrow was born on October 27, 1912 in Texaskana, Arkansas and has lived in Mexico City since 1940. Richard Friedman speaks with him by telephone about his career, and introduces recent recordings of Nancarrow’s player piano music as well as works for live performers. Friedman also talks to Gordon Mumma who describes the early career of Nancarrow during which his music was largely unappreciated until Henry Cowell and John Cage took an interest in the composer’s studies for...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Interview and Music; New Music; Conlon Nancarrow
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| New Music America 1981: Tapes of Studies for Player Piano by Conlon Nancarrow
The second Act of the June 12th concert of the 1981 New Music America Festival was devoted to the music of Conlon Nancarrow, who specialized in composing for the player piano. However unlike the ragtime player piano music that many people are familiar with, Nancarrow’s works are distinguished by their immense mathematical complexity and remarkable speed. In some ways they are not unlike a Bach fugue or canon played at speeds that were impossible to imagine before the advent of the computer...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; New Music America series; Music; New Music; Mechanical Music; Conlon Nancarrow
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| Speaking of Music: Conlon Nancarrow
Recorded on February 2, 1984 as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer Conlon Nancarrow before a live audience. After playing a short documentary on the life and work of Conlon Nancarrow, Charles Amirkhanian talks with the composer about his music written for the player piano.
Keywords: Speaking of Music Series at the Exploratorium; Interview and Music; Mechanical Music; New Music; Conlon Nancarrow
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| Ode to Gravity: Conlon Nancarrow, Studies for Player Piano
Charles Amirkhanian introduces recent compositions by this American composer, who since 1947 developed a unique body of complex pieces, all for player piano. Nancarrow was able to punch carefully calculated holes in player piano rolls and make the instrument perform inhumanly difficult figures. His concerns with rhythm and sonority are more advanced than almost any in the world, yet his music makes an immediate impression even to those who don’t normally like avant-garde music...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Ode to Gravity Series; Interview and Music; 20th Century Classical; Mechanical Music; Conlon Nancarrow
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| Raworth Deserves Better Than Brotzmann 29-xi-2009 - Ben Watson
Episode of Ben Watson's weekly show "Late Lunch With Out To Lunch" originally broadcast live on Resonance Radio (www.resonancefm.com) with spoken word from Tom Raworth - his No Hard Feelings (Corbett Vs Dempsey) with Peter Brotzmann's contributions replaced by better musical interludes, plus some Captain Beefheart.
Keywords: Audio Esemplasm; Ben Watson; Late Lunch With Out To Lunch; Resonance; Frank Zappa; Lol Coxhill; Simon Fell; Kenny Process Team; Pleasure-Drenching Improvers; Marie-Angelique Bueler; Stuart Calton; Conlon Nancarrow
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| Wavelength 2006-08-27 - William English www.williamenglish.com
Aram Saroyan, Chris Burden, Wild Man Fischer, Muslimgauze, Buckethead, Peterson, Yoko Ono, Augusto de Campos, Handsome Family, Henry Flynt, John Wynne, Conlon Nancarrow, Moondog, Wolfgang Fuchs, Peter Brotzmann, Rodney Graham.
Keywords: Aram Saroyan; Chris Burden; Wild Man Fischer; Muslimgauze; Buckethead; Peterson; Yoko Ono; Augusto de Campos; Handsome Family; Henry Flynt; John Wynne; Conlon Nancarrow; Moondog; Wolfgang Fuchs; Peter Brotzmann; Rodney Graham
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